Ancient & Classical
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The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems
$17.99 Add to cartInside A Lover’s Heart There’s Another World, And Yet Another
Rumi’s masterpieces have inspired countless people throughout the centuries, and Coleman Barks’s exquisite renderings of the thirteenth-ce
- Author: Barks, Coleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0060604522
- Language: English
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Love Poems of Catullus
$13.95 Add to cartCatullus was undoubtedly one of the most intimate, witty, vivid, and tender poets of antiquity. Perhaps his greatest gift was his ability to truthfully reveal the fleeting instants of his bare psyche:… [more below]
- Author: Catullus, Gaius Valerius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0811237494
- Language: English
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The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer’s Epic
$14.95 Read moreIn this new verse adaptation, originally commissioned for BBC radio, Simon Armitage has recast Homer’s epic as a series of bristling dramatic dialogues: between gods and men; between no-nonsense Capta… [more below]
- Author: Armitage, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393330818
- Language: English
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The Aeneid
$17.00 Add to cart“Fitzgerald’s [translation] is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come.” —New York Review of Books
Virgil’s- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 16 1990
- ISBN10: 0679729526
- Language: English
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Poetics
$13.00 Add to cartEssential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, and equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature
In the Poetics, his near-contemporary account of classical Greek traged- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140446362
- Language: English
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Wrong Norma
$17.95 Add to cartPublished here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson, several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker and The Paris R… [more below]
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0811230341
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses
$12.00 Add to cartOvid’s sensuous and witty poem, in an accessible translation by David Raeburn
In Metamophoses, Ovid brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transforma- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: August 01 2004
- ISBN10: 014044789X
- Language: English
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The Iliad
$8.95 Add to cartTHE WORLD’S GREATEST WAR NOVEL
Humans and gods wrestling with towering emotions. Men fighting to the death amid devastation and destruction. Perhaps the Western world’s first and best storyteller, Ho- Author: Homer
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 01, 2015
- ISBN10: 0451474341
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses: A New Verse Translation
$26.00 Add to cartOvid’s deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition
Ovid’s sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by … [more below]- Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: May 17, 2016
- ISBN10: 0141394617
- Language: English
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The Essential Rumi – Reissue: New Expanded Edition: A Poetry Anthology
$25.99 Add to cartThis revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems.
Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has b
- Author: Barks, Coleman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0062509586
- Language: English
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The Mahabharata
$21.00 Add to cartA new selection from the national epic of India
Originally composed in Sanskrit sometime between 400 BC and 400 AD, The Mahabharata-with one hundred thousand stanzas of verse-is one of the longest p- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: July 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 0140446818
- Language: English
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The Aeneid: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil’s great epic
Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105132
- Language: English
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
$15.00 Add to cartN. K. Sandars’s landmark translation of one of the first and greatest works of Western literature
A Penguin Classic
Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survive- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Sandars, N. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 30 1960
- ISBN10: 014044100X
- Language: English
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Gilgamesh: A New English Version
$20.00 Add to cartGilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right.
Acclaimed by critics and scholars,- Author: Mitchell, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0743261690
- Language: English
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The Iliad
$25.00 Add to cartHomer’s monumental epic set at the end of the Trojan War explores love, heroism, and the intricate relationship between gods and mortals–now in a beautiful clothbound hardcover edition designed by Co… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 014139465X
- Language: English
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
$17.00 Add to cartAndrew George’s “masterly new translation” (The Times) of the world’s first truly great work of literature
A Penguin Classic
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: George, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 29, 2003
- ISBN10: 0140449191
- Language: English
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The Iliad of Homer
$18.00 Add to cart“Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation.” For sixty years, that’s how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore’s faithful translation–the gold stan
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0226470490
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$39.95 Add to cartThe first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospi
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0393089053
- Language: English
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Theogony and Works and Days
$11.95 Add to cartThis new, fully-annotated translation by a leading expert on Hesiodic poems combines accuracy with readability and includes an introduction and explanatory notes on these two works by one of the oldes… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hesiod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 019953831X
- Language: English
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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
$20.00 Add to cartIn this “gorgeous translation” (The New York Times), one of our most fearless and original poets provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia.
Of the nine… [more below]- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Sappho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 12 2003
- ISBN10: 0375724516
- Language: English
